Impactful Authenticity

This week I spoke to Dan Cornell. Dan is a Managing Consultant at PA Consulting helping his clients embrace organisational agility in the Defence & Security sector. He has a keen interest in how teams come together to respond to change and volatility and how diversity and inclusion improves that ability. 

He also leads PA's Global Pride network building equity for LGBTQ+ people in PA and beyond. Dan's work in Equity and Inclusion also extends in his own community supporting the Nottinghamshire LGBT Network, a charity supporting LGBT+ people in Notts and the surrounding area. 

His background is in Software engineering and data science and he lives in Nottingham with his partner and their dog.

What you’ll hear about:

• You can’t have agility and innovation with diversity of thought
• Inclusion is critical to authenticity
• Culture is core to inclusion 
• The requirement for allyship at a leadership level
• Move the burden off the under represented group
• Allyship requires activism
• Privilege is the opportunity to learn about bias rather than living it

Weekly Challenge : Consider the masks you're wearing at work 

Power of Music : Nobody - Half-alive

Links:

Dan’s LinkedIN
Notts LGBT+ Network

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This week I share a fun and inspiring conversation with J-Ney Antique. J-Ney is a life sciences marketer for over 9 years. He is driven by putting the humanity in to marketing as well as a deep passion for helping to discover new treatments for diseases that help make patients' lives better.

He is a staunch champion of DEI, Mental Health and Wellbeing, and a qualified Mental Health First Aider.

What you’ll hear about:

• The importance of setting the context
• Being a cultural melting pot
• Living and breathing authenticity
• Accepting vulnerability
• Learning rejection to build character
• Agree to disagree
• Living with intent
• Information overload
• Authenticity is an everyday thing
• Keeping mentally fit
• Say something nice

Weekly Challenge : Walk 20,000 steps

Power of Music : One more time - Daft Punk

Links:

J-Ney’s LinkedIN

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This week I will take on another solo show. Sharing with you some reflections I’ve found useful when going through a transition in life, whether that be starting university, jobs, being a parent, wife…. the list goes on.    

What you’ll hear about:

• Trust in others
• Trust in yourself
• No-one is liked by everyone
• Find what fuels your inner confidence
• Be kind to yourself
• Find someone who can call bullsh1t!

Weekly Challenge : Find what can give you a spark of inner confidence

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This week I share a great conversation I had with Mark Agnew. Mark's day job for the last 20 years has mostly been focused on advising and supporting politicians at the national and local level in the UK.  Most recently this was for the elected Mayor of Hackney and his Cabinet.

By night he is one of the co-hosts of the podcast 'Tomorrow's World Audit Time' an extremely long and fascinating show in which Mark and his friend Russ look back at the old BBC science series Tomorrow’s world to finally find out just how much we were lied to when we were all growing up.

What you’ll hear about:

• The impact of moving from Ireland to the UK in the late 1980’s
• Imagining a completely different life, which stopped him living his life
• Gaining a new perspective on the place you live
• Realisation on who I wanted to be & what I wanted to mean to other people
• Going against the grain on career 
• Living in the moment
• Authenticity in politics
• Importance of giving feedback
• Self-judgement

Weekly Challenge : Take a photo each day for a week to see things differently and try not to be so judgemental of yourself

Power of Music : Losing my mind : Imelda Staunton

Links:

https://twitter.com/twaudittime 

https://www.instagram.com/twaudittime/

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This week I share a great conversation I had with Renée Dineen. Renée is an international thought leader playing at the intersection of business, leadership, psychology and well-being.

Prior to launching her own coaching & consulting practice, Renée spent over 20 years in international senior leadership roles in the high tech and biotech industries. Renée has presented on dozens of global stages and has been featured in high profile media publications such as Fortune, Financial Times, Elephant Journal and Ladders Career Magazine. 

Most recently Renée co-authored an anthology titled “The Art & Truth of Transformation for Women” which is an Amazon International Best Seller. 

In February 2020, Renée took her own story to the TEDx stage. Her talk titled Authentic Inaction: Undoing the Doing in a Do Crazy World is an account of her own trials and tribulations as a “doing addict” and workaholic, which has reached over 600K views and supports her mission to revolutionise the way we work, play & relate to one another and our purpose.

What you’ll hear about:

• What is Authentic Inaction
• Our addiction to being busy
• Making tough choices
• Breaking the myths around saying No
• Adding white space to your calendar
• Companies are not going to make it easy for you
• Are your boundaries serving you?
• Fake it till you make it, is not how you build confidence
• Confidence is an energy that supports you getting what you want and need in life
• When you’re confident you’re more interested in learning than getting it right

Weekly Challenge : Pick 3 things to say No to and one thing to say heck YES! 

Power of Music : You say - Lauren Daigle

Links:

Renee’s LinkedIN
Renee's Website

TEDx: Authentic Inaction: Undoing the doing in a do crazy world

https://www.authenticinaction.com

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With our little break in the show over new year I managed to catch up on a lot of the recommendations from previous guests and I’m ready to start with a new batch of awesome books. 

Today you’ll hear about 4 different books. Three from our last four guests on the podcast :Tara Safaie, Brenda Harrington, Jo Franchetti and Kate Munro.

You’ll have to listen to match the book to the person :) 

What you’ll hear about:

• Americanah : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Season of the Witch : David Talbot
• Out think the competition - How a new generation of strategists see options others ignore: Kaihan Krippendorff 
• The City We Became : N K Jemisen

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This week I share a great conversation I had with Kate Munro. Kate has been in the pharmaceutical industry for a number of years and is now moving into communications with a side-hustle in writing. She recently wrote 3 powerful posts on LinkedIN about her experiences so far with the menopause  

What you’ll hear about:

• Building a writing habit
• Taking time to observe what's around you
• Utilising LinkedIN to bring people into your work
• Social media engagement formulas
• The reasons behind not engaging openly with social media content
• What is original content??
• Training your brain to think about things in a new way
• Don’t be narrowly confined by the context your in
• Showing different reflections of your personality on different platforms
• Start writing what you notice everyday. It doesn’t need to be shared

Weekly Challenge : Take 7 days to write down 7 observations. What it means to you to observe that,  what insights do you draw from,, what questions does it raise – you don’t have to publish!

Power of Music : Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue and You’re Free by Ultra Nate

Links:

Kate’s LinkedIN

Don’t use the M word Part 1

Don’t use the M word Part 2

Don’t use the M word Part 3

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This week I share a great conversation I had with Jo Franchetti. Jo is a Developer Advocate at Spotify. She is passionate about teaching best use of the web and its technologies. She’s got 10 years experience as a front end developer and has worked in various parts of the tech industry from start-ups, agencies, charities to large organisations. Jo is a mentor and organiser at codebar.io and at Front End Foxes where she is able to act on her passion not only for teaching but also for improving the diversity and inclusivity of the tech industry.

What you’ll hear about:

• The difficulties she’s faced in a male dominated industry
• Using her frustration to build confidence to call out diversity issues
• The diversity glass ceiling
• The importance of mentoring
• Mental health concerns in the tech industry
• The cycle and expectations of “keep working hard” and keep going creates burn-out
• The importance of finding a company with the right culture for work to support you as an individuals  
• The stress of not being stressed

Weekly Challenge : Make a diary of how you’re spending your time throughout the day and how you’re feeling while being in those times. 

Power of Music : Apocalyptica - Cold Blood 

Links:

Jo’s LinkedIN

Codebar

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This week I share a great conversation I had with Brenda Harrington. Brenda is the founder of Adaptive Leadership Strategies LLC, and the author of ACCESS DENIED: Addressing Workplace Disparities and Discrimination. As a Certified Executive Coach, she works with leaders globally across a variety of sectors to help them develop the professional habits needed for them to achieve their goals.  

What you’ll hear about:

• Trying to fit into an archetype not your own limits your impact
• The continuum between influence and authority
• The need to create a space of psychological safety for people to be confident to be their whole selves
• Gaining confidence by taking small steps into something new
• We have to move away from thinking of diversity, equity and inclusion as a tick-box exercise
• Companies need to hold people accountable for desired and expected behaviour
• Having  diversity does not automatically assume inclusion 
• Using story to get out ouf your own head and try different approaches
• Setting the right expectations for yourself
• Taking ownership and thinking strategically about what you have the power over to do differently

Weekly Challenge : Do something which makes you uncomfortable and find comfort in being uncomfortable

Power of Music : I Wish - Stevie Wonder

Links:

Brenda’s LinkedIN

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This week I share a fascinating conversation I had with Tara Safaie right at the end of 2022. Tara is a director, managing the portfolio for IDEOs Health group. She works closely with clients who aim to use design to change their organisation in human centred ways. Tara is also a first generation Iranian-American who speaks openly about the impact the situation in Iran is having on her and how she authentically shows up. 

What you’ll hear about:

• The overlapping venn diagram between the person in and out of work
• Recognising at times in life you need your close friends and family around to allow you to really show up authentically
• Be kind to yourself & don’t be afraid to sit with your fear
• The importance of company culture in allowing you to show up authentically
• The deliberate rise to centre stage of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the workplace
• Don’t worry about getting everything perfect. Just get started.
• The power of human centred design
• Consideration into the impact of incentives
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Weekly Challenge : Find a hidden incentive

Power of Music : Welcome to the Jungle - Guns and Roses

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